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Based on my own experience, some of my favorite books and blog posts, and advice from friends, I’ve come up with this. What do you think? What should I add? Please comment! This was my opinion back in 2015 I will create a new post showing what has changed! #### Personal Effectiveness Rules of ...
Read more →Not that anyone reads it :) I admit it's mostly for my entertainment. Tags and Collections are much better supported. The access to raindrop is better. The ui for creating posts is much nicer.
If this site looks a little different to you, it’s because I am doing a complete overhaul using Claude code. I have drunk the cool aid 100%! Over the last 2 months I’ve done a lot of “coding”. Actually very liittle coding, more directing Claude Code to code for me. I am using Python ouf of habit ...
Read more →Continuing a theme of the previous blog, I am starting to really believe that programming, coding, software development is going to be forever changed. I say this, among other things, from the perspective of someone who has taught software engineering, development, and intro programming courses. I...
Read more →You have heard how in the long distant past we had people whose job was "Computer". They were people who computed. They worked alongside mathematicians and engineers (I suppose) to make complicated calculations. I suppose they worked with strict numerical problems but also with estimates, or solving...
Read more →All the code for this new version of my web site was written by claude code. Yes, I am not exagerating. Here are some of my take aways. Amazing Yes, start with admiting that it is amazing. This is a fairly simple application but it has a fair number of moving parts. The code is all open source ...
Read more →Easing is the process of gradually increasing (or decreasing) a value to from a start to a target, without just jumping to the target. Used in computer animation. I used it for powering servos in an arm in a graceful way. There are simple Easing Equations to accomplish this.
As an experiment, we asked interviewees to cheat with ChatGPT during their interviews and share who got away with it. Here is the experiment
A 3-Question Checklist for Better Course Design Only when educators are clear on what students should gain by the end of the term can they design effective courses to get them there. Ask yourself these three simple questions when designing your next course to ensure it resonates with students.
Open Streetmaps is one of the nicest packages for maps. But using it is really messy. Prettymaps is a package that makes it easy to use OpenStreetMaps, in python. It contains a small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries.
Guide to Strings in Python –We’ve come far in discovering the basics of computer science in the world of Python, and now is the time to start learning about strings. Strings are a fundame…
Smooth Servo Motion For Lifelike Animatronics –Building an animatronic robot is one thing, but animating it in a lifelike fashion is a completely different challenge. Hobby servos are cheap and popular for animatronics, but just letting it move…
Essay | Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College –Three generations of ‘college for all’ in the U.S. has left most families looking for alternatives.
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? –How git commits really work
Fixit: linting framework with auto-fixes — Fixit documentation –
Using formatters and linters to manage a large codebase | Tech blog | Kraken Tech –Kraken is the world’s leading customer & culture platform for utilities.
Top Python libraries of 2023 –Exploring the expansive universe of Python libraries in 2023, our curated selection goes beyond the usual suspects to uncover hidden gems and innovative tools. Dive in!
Configuration in Python Applications: No Magic, Just Necessary Practice –During the development of Python applications, I’ve continually asked myself how and when variables should be passed and initialized for the application’s configuration. I want to be able to easily override the configuration for tests, for example, to use a local database for testing. But what exactly is application configuration, and why is it needed? The website a …